European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday. December 1,1966 columns George f. Will americans asked to believe the unbelievable a parable three Hunters hire a until plane thai lands them Ina wilderness where they stalk Caribou. The Pilot say "111 return in a week but remember what i said last Yean planes like Thil can carry Only three Hunters and one  when he return he tees uie three Hunt in and three Caribou. The Hunter say. Last year we slipped you $100and you let us Load three  the Pilot says of but this year it s $200," the Hunter grumble bul pay and Jam the Caribou aboard. The plane lumbers a few feet aloft and plows into Tome Trees. The Hunt ers Are scattered through the branches and one shouts where Are we another answers a Hundred Yard from where we crashed last  speaking As the parable does of , policy regarding Iran one thing is dear. There Ait some slow earners Loose. Serious practitioners of Covert operation know that such operations can crash. So they begin by asking themselves what happens if this Enterprise crashes they begin with that question and often go no further. This is not to say that anything that can go wrong should not to attempted. However anything that could go As wrong As the approach to Iran has gone and anything thai to Many extreme hostile an unpredictable foreign factions could cause to go wrong should never have been attempted. The crowning maty was to take the approach to inn which was itself baroque and make it Rococo by connect ing it through Swiss Bank accounts to the Nicaragua  Lunatic parlay this paradigm of overreaching entangles a speculative and Chancy undertaking on peripheral to Reagan s presidency with something Central to Ragan presidency. The peripheral thine a the approach to ban. Peripheral Doe not mean frivolous it Only Means unlikely to soon produce results and inessential to the main themes of the administration s foreign policy the Central Thra Glt we Pon for the Contra. The Contra embody  the commitment to support forces of resistance on the expanding edges of the sonet  connection Between Iran and Nicaragua is Apt to shatter the slender shaky majority supporting Adfor the Contra. That fact is evidence not conclusive but Strong that no one seriously concerned with the president s priorities such As the president could have countenanced it. The question vexing most americans is could few be than senior officials really have rented the Limric Cen Rall weapon and North is the kind of Fedow that president who fed Wren snably , i Well. Pul Allwn Ortii is a fellow who Doe id recent decades the uses of  and Covert Ali oct Nave become subject to Public scrutiny and Legi Stiv Fiat More and More to venue of Acton blocked the impute to act has sought  like underground water Undt l pressure it finds onsets even in tiny Crevice in Tad of Rock. One web. Auto a been in the White Home basement in die National Security Council. Pert  the impulse to act to Rescue adj Hajj away. He Bat a few week to act on Henry in a principle whatever Mutt be revealed eventually Shook James Reston la fest Scanda us Symbol of wider corruption  a t the events of recent weeks have to make us wonder not merely what s happening to the Reagan administration but what s happening to America where Are we going the scandal in Washington Over snaking weapons to Iran and Money to Nicaragua is merely the most  a wider corruption. We see the Maiden at work not Only on Pennsyl Vania Avenue but with the Ivan Boesky of Wall Street the political hucksters of Madison Avenue and the television preachers of main Street give us this Day our daily broadcast history seemed to be trying to Tell us something this Pait thanksgiving week the Treasury department was telling us that we have the largest private and fed eral debt in the nation s history. The Commerce department was telling us that our record Trade deficit was not thefault of japanese brilliance but of our own Industrial mismanagement. And the department of agriculture was telling us that for the first Lime in our history we re buying More farm products from abroad than we re Selling. It would t be fair to blame All this on the government in Washington and to excuse the american people. They go precisely the government they wanted and deserved. Ronald Reagan did really deceive them. Every Quality or Lack thereof he has demonstrated in the White House was apparent and reported when he was in Sacramento As governor of California. His ideology did t change at Home or abroad. His saturday afternoon Broad casts front the White House have been rewrites of his free Enterprise and anti communist sermons for general electric Long before he got into politics. Always he was against government and no after his mismanagement of the iranian nicaraguan affair we know what he mean. It was not that like Richard Nixon atthe watergate he wat in charge and meant to deceive Congress and the peo ple. It happened on i watch but he was t watching. It happened on his Nap. It May seem cruel to condemn him when he Down especially since the democrats Are spoiling for a fight and stalemate Between the White House and Congress May be the treated danger in his last two Yean. But the presidential Campaign of 1988 hat started and Thi time we re going to have to think not merely about an amiable candidate who will Tell us what we want to hear but one who will Tell us the hard truth and makes think not about his personality but about nil politic. In a Way Reagan was More candid than bit recent predecessors to the while House. He did t pretend like Jimm Carter Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson that he could Muter All the mysteries of foreign and economic policy he delegated authority to his appointee in the Cabinet and the White House but chose most of them from hit Geo graphic nod philosophic cronies who liked him and tended to Tell him what be wanted to Bear. In six years a has had five an Lantiat head of the National Security Council which lately has been operating As a secret government within the White House protected by executive privilege beyond the Law and beyond review by the Congress he did not know what it col. Olive North was doing in the executive office building across the Street or what the colonel was saying to the iranians or what papers he was shredding when tie game we exposed. The National Security adviser vice adm. John Poindexter who was on the Bridge at the ume merely h�4,Tura of what Wii going cd below deck but he did t in we Tiff Lidert know who got the Joel writers i the invisible Tel Cit Nec i bet living different  it Ati about on the sunda7mornia Tele vision new Hiowt l. N Short with us heft int Elliottt Radthe wont operations this  Bat been trying to be too anti Emo Clever and too calculating win Ujj Jefe help torn experienced men lad wp5iat a time when the people wed Low what Mutt be done Lor he Security of their children. The mistake and the Fuu Caj f Toiran nicaraguan caper Are nor Ayiyi . The Fig Folte Datton Doe not hang on toy Rijh but upon Trutt Intfen i the integrity of itt word and the ii what hat been Loh. Month and must be restored if i two year Are not to defeat an the  twi Tofta